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AMD Radeon 890M vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Radeon 890M
VS
GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
AMD Radeon 890M
Strix Point
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X2)

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon 890M with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 1 year and 4 months older GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 6 GB that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4050 Mobile over Radeon 890M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 890M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.5x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 2.8x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 53 vs 19 FPS
  • Includes 6 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
  • 2.1x higher maximum theoretical performance (12.1 vs 5.9 TFLOPS)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Achieves 90% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (81K vs 42K)
  • Has 2.5x more shading units (2560 vs 1024)
  • Features 80 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 890M
vs
RTX 4050 Laptop

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
57
30
25
14
107
66
56
35
The Witcher 3
36
32
18
-
117
91
67
34
Counter-Strike 2
51
34
25
10
167
126
88
43
Far Cry 6
43
37
23
13
87
79
59
32
Hogwarts Legacy
25
17
14
-
62
52
34
20
CoD: Modern Warfare III
39
34
22
14
75
68
44
30
Ghost of Tsushima
25
17
12
-
57
45
33
17
Cyberpunk 2077
23
23
12
-
61
57
34
13
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
43
34
21
10
98
90
62
32
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 38 92
1080p Ultra 29 75
1440p Ultra 19 53
4K Ultra 10 28
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Radeon 890M
3186
RTX 4050 Laptop +148%
7909
Time Spy 3305 8212
Solar Bay 15412 35375
Port Royal 1795 4624
Fire Strike 8908 21909
Wild Life Extreme 6884 15492
Night Raid 37640 84848
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 890M
42932
RTX 4050 Laptop +90%
81436
Background Blur 98.6 img/sec 141.4 img/sec
Face Detection 42 img/sec 84.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.25 Gpixels/sec 3.07 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.6 Gpixels/sec 3.91 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.69 Gpixels/sec 3.85 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.55 Gpixels/sec 1.1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 214.8 Gpixels/sec 325.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7757.7 FPS 11008.8 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
Radeon 890M
8083
RTX 4050 Laptop +76%
14217
G2D Mark 979 622
DirectX 11 73 FPS 129 FPS
DirectX 12 37 FPS 60 FPS
GPU Compute 4162 Ops/s 5847 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2175 & 14311 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 890M
302.04
RTX 4050 Laptop +750%
2568.81
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 90 & 2080 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 890M
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GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-17 (kam)Geekbench 6 OpenCL93074
📘 2026-07-15 (Mr._.Flexo)Cinebench 20248096
📘 2026-07-02 (SuperDuck)Geekbench 6 OpenCL90032
📘 2026-05-18 (TheMan)Cinebench 20248523
📘 2026-05-15 -> ZayGeekbench 6 OpenCL89343
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
Radeon 890M
9613
RTX 4050 Laptop +62%
15570
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 890M
15157
RTX 4050 Laptop +79%
27160
GB6 ML Quantized
Radeon 890M
7082
RTX 4050 Laptop +73%
12230
Image Classification (SP) 3563 6233
Image Segmentation (HP) 6170 16395
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10762 18240
Face Detection (HP) 13773 30758
Pose Estimation (Q) 37861 61300
Text Classification (SP) 2572 3124
Machine Translation (HP) 4699 4357
Object Detection (SP) 2845 7812
Depth Estimation (Q) 17260 29192
Style Transfer (SP) 86751 117759
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 890M and GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Integrated Discrete
Released June 3, 2024 February 22, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Gaming
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Strix Point AD107 (GN21-X2)
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 140V - Radeon RX 7700S
Successor - Radeon 8060S - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 475
- AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370		 -
Laptop GPU ranking (79th and 66th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 1140-2070 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 1605-2370 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 1024 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 20
Tensor Cores No 80
Ray-tracing Cores 16 20
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 12MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 93 GPixel/s 51-76 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 186 GTexel/s 128-190 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 890M
5.9 TFLOPS
RTX 4050 Laptop +105%
8.2-12.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 15 W 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 233 mm² 156 mm²
Transistor Count 34 billion 18.9 billion
Transistor Density 145.92 MTr/mm² 121.15 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared GDDR6
Memory Size - 6 GB
Memory Clock - 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 16000 Mbps
Bus - 96-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA None 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 3
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4a

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